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Hard link

In computing, a hard link is a directory entry (in a directory-based file system) that associates a name with a file. Thus, each file must have at least one hard link. Creating additional hard links for a file makes the contents of that file accessible via additional paths (i.e., via different names or in different directories). This causes an alias…

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Hard link

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples37
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

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Hard link

Top relations

related to Operation · 10
Hard link → Editing, GNU Emacs, However, Let, LINK, Now, So, This, TXT, When
related to Limitations · 9
Hard link → Also, Hard, Leopard, Mac OS, There, This, Time Machine, To, UNIX System
see also · 7
Hard link → Details, DIRso, NTFS, OS/2, Points, Symbolic, Thefreedupcommand
related to Platform support · 5
Hard link → NTFS, TheDeleteFile, To, Windows, Windows NT
related to Reference counting · 5
Hard link → Most, The, The OS, This, When
is a · 1
Hard link → directory entry

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Important terminology

hard file links link data system systems directory windows directories one number operating reference support create ntfs use multiple txt

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Hard linkis adirectory entry0.90text
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsTo0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsUNIX System0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsMac OS0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsLeopard0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsTime Machine0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsHard0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsThis0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsAlso0.60section
Hard linkrelated to LimitationsThere0.60section
Hard linkrelated to OperationLet0.60section
Hard linkrelated to OperationLINK0.60section

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